US 2013/0159862 A1Published application

Automated network inventory using a user device

AssigneesVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Verizon North Inc.

InventorsJeffrey T. CARR, Mohsin A. KARIM, Warren THOMPSON, Mike R. BLASIUS, Jonathan ALLEN, David JONES, Neil TOLENTINO, Fahd BHATTY, Awais IQBAL

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Abstract

A system configured to receive a request to perform a survey on a piece of equipment associated with a network; and present, for display, a user interface that allows a user, of the user device, to enter equipment information, associated with the piece of equipment, where the equipment information includes information that uniquely identifies the piece of equipment, information associated with a location of the piece of equipment, or information that identifies ownership of the piece of equipment . The system is also configured to receive, via the user interface, the equipment information; and transmit the equipment information to a server device.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, by a user device, a request to perform a survey on equipment within a network;
presenting for display, on the user device and in response to the request, a map associated with a geographic area, where the map includes data items that represent the equipment;
detecting, by the user device and via the map, selection of a data item that represents a first piece of equipment;
identifying, by the user device and as a result of detecting the selection of the data item, a first location associated with the first piece of equipment;
providing a user interface that allows first equipment information, associated with the first piece of equipment, to be entered, where the first equipment information includes at least one of:
information associated with the first location, or
information that uniquely identifies the first piece of equipment, retrieving, from a memory associated with the user device, second equipment information, associated with a second piece of equipment that is adjacent or connected to the first piece of equipment;
determining, by the user device, whether a condition is associated with the first piece of equipment based the first location and a second location, associated with the second piece of equipment identified by the second equipment information;
and
transmitting, to a server device associated with the network, the first equipment information when a condition is not associated with the first piece of equipment.

7 more elements

A user device, comprising:

a memory to store equipment information associated with equipment within a network, where the equipment information identifies one or more geographic locations associated with the equipment or respective ownership of each piece of the equipment;
and
one or more processors to:
receive a request to survey a first piece of the equipment,
present, for display and in response to the request, a first user interface that identifies a geographic area and one or more data items, associated with the equipment, that is located within the geographic area,
receive, via the first user interface, selection of a point, within the first user interface, that corresponds to a location, within the geographic area,
present, for display, a second user interface that allows the user to specify first equipment information associated with the first piece of the equipment,
receive, via the second user interface, the first equipment information,
determine whether a condition is associated with the first piece of the equipment based on the first equipment information and second equipment information associated with a second piece of the equipment,
where the second piece of the equipment is identified as being connected or adjacent to the first piece of the equipment by the first equipment information,
store, in the memory, the first equipment information when a condition is not associated with the first piece of the equipment, and
output a notification that a condition is associated with the first piece of equipment when a condition is associated with the first piece of equipment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/331,081Filed 20 Dec 2011
Published: 20 Jun 2013
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Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…
H04W 4/02
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services making use of location information
H04W 4/029
Services making use of location information: location-based management or tracking services
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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